Surge in Pumpfields development continues with two-block plan
A firm headed up by Liverpool businessman Paul Jagota is behind proposals for 134 apartments in what is arguably Liverpool’s premier regeneration hotspot.
Leo Pumpfields has submitted an application to Liverpool City Council to build a pair of nine-storey apartment blocks on a 0.5-acre plot on the corner of Pumpfields Road and Gascoyne Street.
The site is currently split in two. One half is a service yard and the other is occupied by an industrial unit.
The scheme has been in the works for some time. In 2023, pre-planning discussions were held with the city council over a 15-storey proposal featuring 449 flats. Since then, the project has been toned down both in terms of height and scale.
The 2025 iteration of the project would feature 62 two-bed flats, 54 with one bedroom, and nine with three.
Landor Planning is advising the developer and ADG is leading on design.
Other schemes in Pumpfields currently in the works include plans from Brack Construction for 85 apartments off Blackstock Street, Jarron Investments’ 400-home Metalworks, Seth Real Estate’s 650-apartment plan, Legacie’s 650-home The Gateway, and Rosmara’s 160-flat Vauxhall Road scheme.
Architect Levitt Bernstein is leading a team made up of Montagu Evans, Arup, and Turner Works to draw up a supplementary planning document for Pumpfields.
The team has been commissioned by Liverpool City Council to draft the SPD that will pave the way for investment to create a residential-led mixed-use community featuring homes for up to 10,000 people.
Curious as to why 6 floors have been lopped off this site?
By Anonymous
Why lower the blocks to 9 storeys when other blocks in the vicinity are higher than that eg Legacie Gateway is 15 storeys, and the long stalled Infinity 39 storeys, there’s no logic to it.
Meanwhile we are still awaiting an outcome on the nearby Packaged Living blocks, another mystery inside the tangled web that the Liverpool Planning Dept weaves, who’s in charge there?
By Anonymous
I wonder who’s idea was it to scale back this development, as that’s a big difference in numbers and future tax revenue. The site its self is ideal for something of decent height considering all the planned future developments round there.
By GetItBuilt!
Liverpool planning department are not fit for purpose
By Anonymous
I often wonder who comes onto this website because the people who leave comments clearly do not work in the built development sector. Schemes are being reduced in scale because of new national fire regulations which require more escape routes etc. the taller you go making taller buildings less viable. Liverpool has low land values making what you build low value hence people wanting to deliver mostly one-beds.
By Anonymous
@ 9:19 am By Anonymous – surely if that was the case, they would be limiting the height to below the Gateway 2 threshold of 18m / 6 storeys? Perhaps I’m wrong, but whether it is 9 storeys or 15 storeys makes no difference to the new BSA building reg requirements?
By Anonymous
Anon 9:19, whilst I agree with you the the comments section is excruciating sometimes, I think it’s a good thing that PNW attracts people from outside the profession.
The work of the sector affects ALL people, it’s the layperson that is left to live with the work of this sector. So, it’s important that everybody understands why things are built the way they are. It’s the sector’s responsibility to communicate their rationale, not shut people down because they don’t understand the non-obvious, and because they’re ‘not from the sector’.
By Anonymous
@Anon 9.19am, so how come Davos are happy to build a number of towers, some up to 60 floors we are told, Legacie too have been building to 16 and 18 floors recently. Liverpool Planning has been messing developers round for some years now over heights, and though they say their attitude has changed they don’t seem to be able to shake off their height phobia.
I see Cardiff are about to build a 50 storey tower next to the rugby stadium, it’s a historic city but they see the benefits of not being bogged down in the past.
By Anonymous